A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less well known than the surfaces of Mars, Mercury or Venus and that charting the depth and shape of the seabed will help understand the impact ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the ...

A satellite-mounted instrument has in just one year produced higher-resolution imagery of the global seafloor than that from comparable systems over the past 30 years.

A new satellite has mapped Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail, a new study reveals. . The first year of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, ...

The elements, along with the hook-like shape of the cape itself, make Cape Cod a global hotspot for dolphin ... that become trapped in the fishhook topography of Cape Cod. Sea turtles can also ...